Protestant nor Catholic schools, to such extent as is done now. But history was never neglected in Jesuit colleges, and it gradually obtained a place of honor among the literary studies. This was evidently the case in France in the beginning of the eighteenth century. We refer the reader to various works which deal with this subject.[1] In Germany we find in the Jesuit colleges, as early as 1622, special historical works assigned to various classes. In these compendia also "modern" history was treated.[2] The text-books most in use in German Jesuit colleges during the eighteenth century, were the Rudimenta Historica of Father Dufrène,[3] and the Introductio of Father Wagner.[4] From Father Kropf's work it is evident that, when he wrote this work in 1736, history was treated quite systematically, in a well graded course, in all the classes below philosophy. This is evident from the programme given above on pages 121-125. The same author gives also a method of teaching history.[5]
- ↑ Daniel, Les Jésuites instituteurs de la jeunesse aux XVII. et XVIII. siècles. – Rochemonteix, Un collège de Jésuites aux XVII. et XVIII. siècles. Le collège Henri IV. de la Flèche, vol. IV., pp. 123-147.
- ↑ Duhr, Studienordnung, pp. 104-106. – Pachtler, Monumenta, vol. IV, p. 105 seq. – The first compendium used was that of Tursellini, reaching down to 1598. It went through many editions in Germany, and in 1682 Father Ott supplemented it by a history of the seventeenth century.
- ↑ Pachtler, vol. IV, p. 112 seq.
- ↑ Pachtler, l. c., p. 118 seq.
- ↑ Pachtler, l. c., p. 116; and German translation of Kropf's work in Herder's Bibliothek der katholischen Pädagogik, vol. X, p. 422.
